Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, 000 letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.

Despite the different subject matter between this poem and the Works and Days, most scholars, with some notable exceptions ( like Evelyn-White ), believe that the two works were written by the same man.

Despite the name, reverse Polish notation is not exactly the reverse of Polish notation, for the operands of non-commutative operations are still written in the conventional order ( e. g. "/ 6 3 " in Polish notation and " 6 3 /" in reverse Polish both evaluating to 2, whereas " 3 6 /" in reverse Polish notation would evaluate to ½ ).

Despite these criticisms, Joshi argues that since Gerald's Game ( 1993 ), King has been tempering the worst of his writing faults, producing books that are leaner, more believable and generally better written.

* Despite the fact that the Statute of Westminster applied to the Dominion of Canada without any need for ratification, the British North America Acts, the current written elements ( in 1931 ) of the Canadian Constitution were excluded from the application of the Statute of Westminster.

" Despite its atypical nature, " Contendings " includes many of the oldest episodes in the divine conflict, and many events appear in the same order as in much later accounts, suggesting that a traditional sequence of events was forming at the time that the story was written.

Despite such authors ' best efforts, sword and sorcery has more colloquially come to be known as a catch-all phrase for low grade, derivative fantasy as well as fiction written in such universes.

Despite being called " compounds ", these logograms are still single characters, and are written to take up the same amount of space as any other logogram.

Despite similarities in theme and name, Nyarlathotep does not feature at all in Lovecraft's story " The Crawling Chaos ", ( 1920 / 21 ) an apocalyptic narrative written in collaboration with Winifred V. Jackson ( aka Elizabeth Berkeley ).

Despite this positive reaction from readers, for decades literary critics dismissed the style found in Uncle Tom's Cabin and other sentimental novels because these books were written by women and so prominently featured " women's sloppy emotions.

Despite Richie and Eddie seemingly being killed at the end of series three ( something which also happened in the episode " Hole ", only for them to reappear unharmed in the following episode ), a fourth series was written but turned down by the BBC, and several of their live shows as well as Guest House Paradiso have been written and performed since then.

Despite its small memory size, many innovative programs were written for the Alto, including:

Despite the critical praise for Live Through This, furious rumors circulated insinuating that Cobain had actually written the majority of the album, though the band vehemently denies this.

Despite the protracted composition period, there was no discernible difference, especially in the two symphonies, between the sections completed in the 1860s and those written much later.

Despite the close correspondence between the written and filmed works, numerous differences between them have been identified.

One review written when the series was released on DVD gave it average ratings, commenting that while the show was dubbed into English poorly, it commented positively on the use of characters saying, " Despite his heroic calling as a robot pilot, Akito is remarkably approachable — after all, what could be more down-to-earth than a cook?

Despite having agreed to Sullivan's request that the line " Girl we couldn't get much higher " be changed for the show, Jim Morrison performs it the way it was written and The Doors are banned from the show.

Despite starting the season for Newcastle and scoring in a League Cup win over Coventry City, it was revealed after the game that Milner had handed in a written transfer request the week before.

Despite only two songs from the album being written solely by Lynott, and other members of the band contributing more to the compositions, both Gorham and Wharton have since stated their dissatisfaction with some of the songs, such as " Angel of Death ", " Fats " and " Mexican Blood ".

Despite attempts by his father Dr. Morgan Brown to free both John Louis and his mother Mariah in his will that had been written before John Louis's birth in 1839, John Louis was never freed.

Despite having written the single's b-side, Lord ( Wilkinson ) left the group soon after its release in October 1963 and was replaced by Nicky Crouch ( formerly of Faron's Flamingos ) ( born Nicholas Crouch, Aintree ).

Despite the form's Spanish roots ( confirmed by references in Spanish literature of the period ), the first written examples of passacaglias are found in an Italian source dated 1606.

Despite their chances of progression being written off by press on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border, Celtic defeated Liverpool 3 – 1 on aggregate with Larsson scoring the opener in a 1 – 1 1st leg draw followed by a 2 – 0 Celtic victory at Anfield.

Despite this requirement, many of the stories are fictional, often appearing as " original submissions " and presenting no further sources than unverified ( and unreliable ) " eyewitnesses ".

Despite lowering the Central Bank bills rate, the Central Bank has not changed liquidity indicators for banks or the reserve requirement since 2009, curbing credit growth to 7. 5 % in the first three quarters of 2011.

Despite the basic importance of the foreign language requirement, a completely dialogueless film such as Le Bal ( 1983 ) was still able to get nominated in the Foreign Language Film category.

Despite this requirement for the Hays whitewash squad, Solow and Milestone retain all of the virility of the piece in its original form.

Despite popular belief, the use of manipulation, coercion, and domination to influence others is not a requirement for leadership.

Despite a vote of 51. 6 % in favour of devolution, the Scotland Act 1978 was not put into effect due to a requirement that the ' Yes ' vote receive the support of 40 % of the electorate, which was not met on 63. 8 % turnout.

Despite there being a statutory requirement for schools to hold a daily act of collective worship, many do not.

The amended Autonomy Statute of Catalonia has also been legally contested by the surrounding Autonomous Communities of Aragon, Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community Despite these changes having been proposed and approved by fellow members of the PSOE, former Finance Minister Pedro Solbes disagreed with this new trend of assigning state investment quotas to territories based on any given autonomous community custom requirement and has subsequently compared the task of planning the Spanish national budget to a sudoku.

Despite a limit on length of stay, no requirement exists that the individual remain for any period in the job the visa was originally issued for.

Despite this opposition, the government chose to retain this requirement of the Bill.

Despite this, a few 1975 and 1976 Ninety Eights were released from this catalytic converter requirement in Canada and were given certification along with exemption from requiring unleaded gasoline.

Despite a 12-hour teaching load requirement and ongoing financial problems with programs and support systems, a significant number of McNeese faculty have received Fulbright Awards.

Despite Toll not achieving the 90 % requirement, the Government honoured the Heads of Agreement made in July.

Despite being slowed by the requirement for the helicopters to land without lights, the operation went smoothly and was finally completed after midnight.

Despite the requirement for mandatory participation, failing to achieve at least a passing grade ( E ) usually does not carry any academic consequences for primary and secondary school students, although students are still strongly encouraged to pass.

Despite being highly rated by the fans and pundits, Huckerby found first team chances severely limited, especially since manager Kevin Keegan decided to scrap the reserve team, in response to a requirement from the FA that a certain percentage of home reserve fixtures be played at St James ' Park.

Despite his three children by Cleopatra, Marc Antony designated Antyllus as his official heir — a requirement under Roman law and a designation that probably contributed to his execution at age 17 by Octavian ( later the Emperor Augustus ).

Despite the re-branding, Rogers still commits to the channel's requirement to air commercial-free educational programming from 6 a. m. to 3 p. m. daily.

Despite a requirement pursuant to Alien Land Law for all guardians of agricultural land belonging to minor children of ineligible aliens, Kajiro Oyama did not do so until the date of the trial.

Despite a fallout in popularity among machine shops, cast iron remains the most popular material for surface masters ( different usage from a surface plate ) among laboratory metrologists, machine builders, gage makers, and other high-accuracy industries that have a requirement for gauging flatness.